TraceyB
@ineeddirection.bsky.social
Hopeless romantic, rubbish musician, sulky software developer. 1/3 of the @wedigmusic.bsky.social podcast.
Posting semi-regular maudlin hours. Join me and sob along...
MBS, TFC, MBV, AMC, TWP, SMB, UVS, YLT, RHP, JTP, DAD. Not SFM.
Posting semi-regular maudlin hours. Join me and sob along...
MBS, TFC, MBV, AMC, TWP, SMB, UVS, YLT, RHP, JTP, DAD. Not SFM.
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TraceyB
@ineeddirection.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Toppermost #730: American Music Club - a top 10 picked by @ineeddirection.bsky.social ... "melody and instrumentation are important but it’s Mark Eitzel’s voice and the words that provide the emotional hold for me" #80srock #indie www.toppermost.co.uk/american-mus...
My Toppermost contribution on American Music Club.
Coming tomorrow #TraceysBlurryGigPics2025
Some of you will remember #TraceysBlurryGigPics2024 but that was only a top 10. This year, I'm doing a full advent calendar starting with the ok photos and getting progressively worse (or better).
Join me tomorrow for day 1 ...
Some of you will remember #TraceysBlurryGigPics2024 but that was only a top 10. This year, I'm doing a full advent calendar starting with the ok photos and getting progressively worse (or better).
Join me tomorrow for day 1 ...
November 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Coming tomorrow #TraceysBlurryGigPics2025
Some of you will remember #TraceysBlurryGigPics2024 but that was only a top 10. This year, I'm doing a full advent calendar starting with the ok photos and getting progressively worse (or better).
Join me tomorrow for day 1 ...
Some of you will remember #TraceysBlurryGigPics2024 but that was only a top 10. This year, I'm doing a full advent calendar starting with the ok photos and getting progressively worse (or better).
Join me tomorrow for day 1 ...
Reposted by TraceyB
The 2025 Festive 50 is well and truly OPEN!
Send your top 10 tracks of the year before the vote closes in 2 weeks time.
Send your top 10 tracks of the year before the vote closes in 2 weeks time.
November 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The 2025 Festive 50 is well and truly OPEN!
Send your top 10 tracks of the year before the vote closes in 2 weeks time.
Send your top 10 tracks of the year before the vote closes in 2 weeks time.
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 30. Slint - Washer
"Please
Listen to me
Don't let go"
😭😭😭😭😭
Thank you @tansleyjames.bsky.social for the challenge
youtu.be/nmL7rXt1fvI?...
Day 30. Slint - Washer
"Please
Listen to me
Don't let go"
😭😭😭😭😭
Thank you @tansleyjames.bsky.social for the challenge
youtu.be/nmL7rXt1fvI?...
Washer
YouTube video by Slint - Topic
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 30. Slint - Washer
"Please
Listen to me
Don't let go"
😭😭😭😭😭
Thank you @tansleyjames.bsky.social for the challenge
youtu.be/nmL7rXt1fvI?...
Day 30. Slint - Washer
"Please
Listen to me
Don't let go"
😭😭😭😭😭
Thank you @tansleyjames.bsky.social for the challenge
youtu.be/nmL7rXt1fvI?...
Wordle 1,625 X/6
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:(
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November 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Wordle 1,625 X/6
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:(
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#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 29. Buffalo Tom - Velvet Roof
"Here she comes across the street
But I'm already there downstairs to meet with her
She could make my life complete"
youtu.be/P1LFwWyXs2I?...
Day 29. Buffalo Tom - Velvet Roof
"Here she comes across the street
But I'm already there downstairs to meet with her
She could make my life complete"
youtu.be/P1LFwWyXs2I?...
Buffalo Tom - Velvet Roof HD
YouTube video by Beggars Banquet Records
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 29. Buffalo Tom - Velvet Roof
"Here she comes across the street
But I'm already there downstairs to meet with her
She could make my life complete"
youtu.be/P1LFwWyXs2I?...
Day 29. Buffalo Tom - Velvet Roof
"Here she comes across the street
But I'm already there downstairs to meet with her
She could make my life complete"
youtu.be/P1LFwWyXs2I?...
Reposted by TraceyB
Your first of many, many, many reminders that the 2025 vote is now open and votes are coming in.
Please send your top 10 tracks of 2025, in order.
Please send your top 10 tracks of 2025, in order.
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Your first of many, many, many reminders that the 2025 vote is now open and votes are coming in.
Please send your top 10 tracks of 2025, in order.
Please send your top 10 tracks of 2025, in order.
❤️❤️
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
❤️❤️
Reposted by TraceyB
The vote for the 2025 Festive 50 is officially OPEN!
Please send me your top 10 tracks from 2025 before the vote closes on 14th December.
Votes can be public by replying or @ ing me on a post (no hashtags) or in private by sending me a DM.
Please also spread the word cos we need more voters!!!
Please send me your top 10 tracks from 2025 before the vote closes on 14th December.
Votes can be public by replying or @ ing me on a post (no hashtags) or in private by sending me a DM.
Please also spread the word cos we need more voters!!!
a sign that says sorry we 're closed hangs on a glass door
ALT: a sign that says sorry we 're closed hangs on a glass door
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The vote for the 2025 Festive 50 is officially OPEN!
Please send me your top 10 tracks from 2025 before the vote closes on 14th December.
Votes can be public by replying or @ ing me on a post (no hashtags) or in private by sending me a DM.
Please also spread the word cos we need more voters!!!
Please send me your top 10 tracks from 2025 before the vote closes on 14th December.
Votes can be public by replying or @ ing me on a post (no hashtags) or in private by sending me a DM.
Please also spread the word cos we need more voters!!!
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 28. Pavement - Trigger Cut
"Tricks are everything to me"
youtu.be/-nEs3vODGrE?...
Day 28. Pavement - Trigger Cut
"Tricks are everything to me"
youtu.be/-nEs3vODGrE?...
Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17
YouTube video by Pavement - Topic
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 28. Pavement - Trigger Cut
"Tricks are everything to me"
youtu.be/-nEs3vODGrE?...
Day 28. Pavement - Trigger Cut
"Tricks are everything to me"
youtu.be/-nEs3vODGrE?...
I knew, thanks to a spoiler post, the solution to yesterday's Wordle was probably a Fall album. So following my usual start words, it was easy to guess the answer was Re-Mit. I wish I'd chanced this as my opening gambit but it'd have felt disingenuous to claim this as a victory!
#FallFriday
#FallFriday
Wordle 1,622 3/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
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I'll admit I saw a spoiler on today's solution from someone else's post earlier - not the actual answer but a brilliant clue!
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I'll admit I saw a spoiler on today's solution from someone else's post earlier - not the actual answer but a brilliant clue!
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I knew, thanks to a spoiler post, the solution to yesterday's Wordle was probably a Fall album. So following my usual start words, it was easy to guess the answer was Re-Mit. I wish I'd chanced this as my opening gambit but it'd have felt disingenuous to claim this as a victory!
#FallFriday
#FallFriday
Wordle 1,622 3/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I'll admit I saw a spoiler on today's solution from someone else's post earlier - not the actual answer but a brilliant clue!
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I'll admit I saw a spoiler on today's solution from someone else's post earlier - not the actual answer but a brilliant clue!
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Wordle 1,622 3/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I'll admit I saw a spoiler on today's solution from someone else's post earlier - not the actual answer but a brilliant clue!
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I'll admit I saw a spoiler on today's solution from someone else's post earlier - not the actual answer but a brilliant clue!
Reposted by TraceyB
Met up with @agarr45.bsky.social for a coffee in Tamworth on his journey back from Coventry. Dragged @ineeddirection.bsky.social along too.
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Met up with @agarr45.bsky.social for a coffee in Tamworth on his journey back from Coventry. Dragged @ineeddirection.bsky.social along too.
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 27. Sea Urchins - Time Is All I've Seen
"All that can grow from a tiny seed
It gets its space and every little thing it needs
You take the path wherever it may lead
'Cause life is where I'm going
And time is all I've seen"
youtu.be/r9RxO4PHqPA?...
Day 27. Sea Urchins - Time Is All I've Seen
"All that can grow from a tiny seed
It gets its space and every little thing it needs
You take the path wherever it may lead
'Cause life is where I'm going
And time is all I've seen"
youtu.be/r9RxO4PHqPA?...
Time Is All I've Seen
YouTube video by The Sea Urchins - Topic
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 27. Sea Urchins - Time Is All I've Seen
"All that can grow from a tiny seed
It gets its space and every little thing it needs
You take the path wherever it may lead
'Cause life is where I'm going
And time is all I've seen"
youtu.be/r9RxO4PHqPA?...
Day 27. Sea Urchins - Time Is All I've Seen
"All that can grow from a tiny seed
It gets its space and every little thing it needs
You take the path wherever it may lead
'Cause life is where I'm going
And time is all I've seen"
youtu.be/r9RxO4PHqPA?...
Wordle 1,621 4/6
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Impressed to have guessed this one in 4 :)
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Impressed to have guessed this one in 4 :)
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Wordle 1,621 4/6
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Impressed to have guessed this one in 4 :)
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Impressed to have guessed this one in 4 :)
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 26. Swervedriver - Son of Mustang Ford
"My sane-scape's disrupted in a pickup truck
The radio still plays
Amongst the mangled metal frays
Petroleum spirit daze"
youtu.be/MHva52tOoeo?...
Day 26. Swervedriver - Son of Mustang Ford
"My sane-scape's disrupted in a pickup truck
The radio still plays
Amongst the mangled metal frays
Petroleum spirit daze"
youtu.be/MHva52tOoeo?...
Swervedriver - Son Of Mustang Ford
YouTube video by content generator
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 26. Swervedriver - Son of Mustang Ford
"My sane-scape's disrupted in a pickup truck
The radio still plays
Amongst the mangled metal frays
Petroleum spirit daze"
youtu.be/MHva52tOoeo?...
Day 26. Swervedriver - Son of Mustang Ford
"My sane-scape's disrupted in a pickup truck
The radio still plays
Amongst the mangled metal frays
Petroleum spirit daze"
youtu.be/MHva52tOoeo?...
Random acts of senseless beauty #52
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Random acts of senseless beauty #52
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Well it was supposed to be alphabetical but I missed one out back in G. This is a pretty un-Tracey choice but I loved this song. Saw them live at The Scala around 99/2000. Astounding live act.
Day 25. The Herbaliser - Goldrush
youtu.be/AAqWxrFGxvQ?...
Well it was supposed to be alphabetical but I missed one out back in G. This is a pretty un-Tracey choice but I loved this song. Saw them live at The Scala around 99/2000. Astounding live act.
Day 25. The Herbaliser - Goldrush
youtu.be/AAqWxrFGxvQ?...
Goldrush
YouTube video by The Herbaliser - Topic
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Well it was supposed to be alphabetical but I missed one out back in G. This is a pretty un-Tracey choice but I loved this song. Saw them live at The Scala around 99/2000. Astounding live act.
Day 25. The Herbaliser - Goldrush
youtu.be/AAqWxrFGxvQ?...
Well it was supposed to be alphabetical but I missed one out back in G. This is a pretty un-Tracey choice but I loved this song. Saw them live at The Scala around 99/2000. Astounding live act.
Day 25. The Herbaliser - Goldrush
youtu.be/AAqWxrFGxvQ?...
You wait nearly 10 years for a gig with @davidkbruce.bsky.social then two come along within three months!
Great to meet up for Tortoise at Leeds Irish Centre.
Sadly we couldn't persuade @willmcalpine.bsky.social to join us.
Tortoise were utterly brilliant as were the support Memorials.
Great to meet up for Tortoise at Leeds Irish Centre.
Sadly we couldn't persuade @willmcalpine.bsky.social to join us.
Tortoise were utterly brilliant as were the support Memorials.
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
You wait nearly 10 years for a gig with @davidkbruce.bsky.social then two come along within three months!
Great to meet up for Tortoise at Leeds Irish Centre.
Sadly we couldn't persuade @willmcalpine.bsky.social to join us.
Tortoise were utterly brilliant as were the support Memorials.
Great to meet up for Tortoise at Leeds Irish Centre.
Sadly we couldn't persuade @willmcalpine.bsky.social to join us.
Tortoise were utterly brilliant as were the support Memorials.
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 24. Veruca Salt - Seether
"I try to keep her on a short leash
I try to calm her down
I try to ram her into the ground, yeah"
youtu.be/4YrK1Rq7AKk?...
Day 24. Veruca Salt - Seether
"I try to keep her on a short leash
I try to calm her down
I try to ram her into the ground, yeah"
youtu.be/4YrK1Rq7AKk?...
Veruca Salt - Seether
YouTube video by Veruca Salt
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 24. Veruca Salt - Seether
"I try to keep her on a short leash
I try to calm her down
I try to ram her into the ground, yeah"
youtu.be/4YrK1Rq7AKk?...
Day 24. Veruca Salt - Seether
"I try to keep her on a short leash
I try to calm her down
I try to ram her into the ground, yeah"
youtu.be/4YrK1Rq7AKk?...
Harry has taken a blurry mbv photo for me since I'm not going to any of the dates ❤️😎
@badgigpictures.bsky.social
@badgigpictures.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Harry has taken a blurry mbv photo for me since I'm not going to any of the dates ❤️😎
@badgigpictures.bsky.social
@badgigpictures.bsky.social
Random acts of senseless beauty #51
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Random acts of senseless beauty #51
Reposted by TraceyB
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November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This #90sTop30 pick reminded me that years ago, @davidkbruce.bsky.social and I had a bet over who'd be the first to write a second @toppermost.bsky.social post. I lost the bet and *still* haven't written another one. But David's Trumans Water piece was brilliant.
www.toppermost.co.uk/trumans-water/
www.toppermost.co.uk/trumans-water/
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This #90sTop30 pick reminded me that years ago, @davidkbruce.bsky.social and I had a bet over who'd be the first to write a second @toppermost.bsky.social post. I lost the bet and *still* haven't written another one. But David's Trumans Water piece was brilliant.
www.toppermost.co.uk/trumans-water/
www.toppermost.co.uk/trumans-water/
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 23. Drop Nineteens - My Aquarium
"But we've had just about enough
Yes we've had more than enough"
youtu.be/CxikSP4Osnk?...
Day 23. Drop Nineteens - My Aquarium
"But we've had just about enough
Yes we've had more than enough"
youtu.be/CxikSP4Osnk?...
Drop Nineteens - My Aquarium (Peel Session)
YouTube video by Vibracobra23 Redux
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#90sTop30 (Alphabetical by song title)
Day 23. Drop Nineteens - My Aquarium
"But we've had just about enough
Yes we've had more than enough"
youtu.be/CxikSP4Osnk?...
Day 23. Drop Nineteens - My Aquarium
"But we've had just about enough
Yes we've had more than enough"
youtu.be/CxikSP4Osnk?...